The Case for Chronic Kidney Disease, Diabetes Mellitus, and Myocardial Infarction Being Equivalent Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Mortality in Patients Older Than 65 Years

The objective of the study was to determine whether chronic kidney disease (CKD) is as important a risk as either diabetes mellitus (DM) or previous myocardial infarction (MI). CKD and DM are important coronary artery disease risk factors. We hypothesized that the risk of cardiovascular mortality in...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The American journal of cardiology 2008-12, Vol.102 (12), p.1668-1673
Hauptverfasser:	Rashidi, Arash, MD, Sehgal, Ashwini Reddi, MD, Rahman, Mahboob, MD, MS, O' Connor, Andrew Stenson, DO, MPH
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aged Biological and medical sciences Cardiology Cardiology. Vascular system Cardiovascular Cardiovascular Diseases - mortality Coronary heart disease Diabetes Diabetes Complications Diabetes. Impaired glucose tolerance Endocrine pancreas. Apud cells (diseases) Endocrinopathies Etiopathogenesis. Screening. Investigations. Target tissue resistance Female Heart Heart attacks Humans Kaplan-Meier Estimate Kidney diseases Kidneys Longitudinal Studies Male Medical sciences Mortality Myocardial Infarction - complications Nephrology Nephrology. Urinary tract diseases Nephropathies. Renovascular diseases. Renal failure Older people Poisson Distribution Proportional Hazards Models Renal failure Renal Insufficiency, Chronic - complications Risk Factors Urinary system involvement in other diseases. Miscellaneous
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